Double Bass Microphone, Pickup or both?

[lermgalieu]

Yeah, but I like the push! You know what I am sayin, I'm in a ROCK band! At least we rock it sometimes. I justify it by looking at what Chris Wood does - he carries around a big ole Ampeg stack for his electric, and plugs his bass outputs into the sound board. At least my big rig can handle both the upright and electric faithfully....

 

[brianrost]

Originally posted by bassgeek
Phil,
There is another product on the market by Pan Electric of Canada that lets you mix your existing pickup with their mic.

I had one of these and it was disappointing. It came with a single element piezo (similar to K&K Bass Max or half an Underwood) and an electret mike powered by an AA battery. The mike was designed to be stuffed into the F-hole on the G-string side. The mixing was totally passive and the pickup was unbuffered.

As you might expect, the pickup sounded pretty scratchy by itself but the mike sounded pretty darn good, until I turned it up

When I patched in a Behringer Feedback Exterminator unit (basically a digital notch filtering EQ) to handle the feedback I was able to get the volume up a bit and arco sounded fine but I felt overall it was a flawed product (good idea poorly executed) and sold it to someone else (whom I hope had better luck with it).

I should say I'm not a jazz player, I work in blues bands so stage volumes for me are higher.

 

[lermgalieu]

I finally got my Crown GLM200 hooked up with my Fishman BP100, thru a Blender, and I have to say I think I am satisfied! Woohoo! I just need to get the correct mount to mount the Cron lower on my bridge - I guess the mount I got must be for all instruments except bass :-(

 

[trailertrash]

Hi all,In reply to Phil Smith about his Kay.I was using an Underwood to amplify my '58 Kay,but could only use it in low volume (i.e.Bluegrass gigs with the loudest instrument being a banjo).I switched to an electric bass guitar pickup mounted off the end of the fingerboard. I play in a loud,old time country,rockabilly,swing,rock whatever band.The pickup has no feedback,but the sound is not what I really lusted after.I use a big rig,Kern preamp,Eden power amp (WT-1000 I think the number is),and Eden 18" + 4-10" cabs.But I just bought the K+K Rockabilly slap pickup rig from Bob G. and I'm using it by itself mostly.It has a more upright sound (obviously),allows me to slap,and doesn't feedback to badly (and I really like to shake the barrooms fondations if you know what I mean).I've allways been interested in the Barbara pickup,but 500$ is more than I can afford.So check out the K+K stuff,and don't forget to put some thought into the amplifier side of things.For me, a small mic will be the next step.

 

[Jon Stefaniak]

I use d'adario hybrids,

at a bass lesson a week ago, my teacher, Laura Snyder, commented that my strings sounded "metalic". I replied with somethin like "yeah, these strings sound pretty bad"